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From 17 May, the City Gallery will be filled with the art of Professor Paweł Frąckiewicz. The Wrocław-based artist will be presenting works created over the past two decades in various printmaking techniques, digital printing and drawing.
Frąckiewicz’s works presented in his solo exhibition at the Wrocław gallery are divided into three main series: Bulls, Trees and Moons. Although the works included in a particular series share the same motifs, they often vary in the multiplicity of artistic techniques used within them. The artist uses, among others, lithography, algraphy, digital printing, including UV printing, pen and pencil drawing, as well as black and white chalk.
Frąckiewicz’s artistic strategy involves creating vague relationships between motifs taken directly from nature and elements reminiscent of human production. The tendency to combine antagonisms is also reflected in the formal layer of his work, for example by juxtaposing tonal drawing with precise hatching or by placing structural density next to areas of maximally simplified composition. The artist describes his art as follows: I draw hard geometric forms and soft organic forms, without shying away from gestures allied to Far Eastern art. I balance between the positive and the negative in order to preserve the relationship between the present and the absent. As a result, the essence of Frąckiewicz’s art lies somewhere between primordial matter and the sphere of spirituality, while in his works, the artist strives to combine the impressional experience with intellectual reflection.
Mirosław Jasiński, the curator of the exhibition, writes these words to explain the title of the exhibition: It is, of course, a mental journey into the depths of spiritual energy drawn from real experience and imagination. Taurida is also a metaphorical and mythical land once described by Herodotus and Strabo, exuding power, the cruelty of nature and its melancholy. And just as with the ancient Greeks, in Paweł Frąckiewicz’s art the myths ooze from beneath the almost idolatrously rendered matter, obscured from the world by the shadow of Taurus – the bull.
The exhibition will be on view until 14 June 2024.
Curator: Mirosław Jasiński
NIGHT OF THE MUSEUMS 2024 IN WROCLAW
The exhibition Paweł Frąckiewicz/ Journey to Taurida takes part in the Wrocław edition of the Night of Museums. You are welcome to visit us on 18 May from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
The event will include an art corner for the youngest art lovers.
